In this seminal book, a distinguished group of experts pinpoint and rigorously analyse central topics in international business research. This volume will become a major reference tool for understanding the economics of multinational enterprise. The emphasis throughout is on a new dynamic...

This article reviews the relevance of the transactions-costs model to the role of the firm in production and diffusion of knowledge. A revival of interest in technology, productivity and growth has generated a new empirical and theoretical literature. A review of these developments suggests that...

This paper explores how European leadership in post-war international trade negotiations has both produced and attempted to respond to systemic conditions of uncertainty. Ostry argues that the initial pre-eminence of Europe, along with the U.S., in these negotiations stimulated unforeseen...